If you are missing it, something's up with the portage tree. If you're not, I'm not sure what's going on.
When did you last sync portage? You could also just manually create the file. Here are the contents:

I decided I probably should update portage, but it won't compile pycrypto, one of the dependencies:

After a long time, I tried to update portage, and I'm seeing exactly the same errors you quote. Sad, but I do get the impression that portage for OS X is an abandoned project. Maybe the competition was too strong, maybe there wasn't enough interest, who knows?

I decided I probably should update portage, but it won't compile pycrypto, one of the dependencies:

After a long time, I tried to update portage, and I'm seeing exactly the same errors you quote. Sad, but I do get the impression that portage for OS X is an abandoned project. Maybe the competition was too strong, maybe there wasn't enough interest, who knows?

Sitting on the same problem, and old portage (portage package, not tree, tree is 2006-06-11) and I´m not able to do a complete sync or upgrade of the portage package. Have some strange problem with sed too._________________AMD Athlon64 3200+, MSI K8 Neo-FSR, 1024Mb Crucial DDR400, Dell 2405FPW 24", Maxtor 200Gb Sata runs gentoo and now Xgl with Compiz